Here’s
a strip from

For those who love such things, it looks like someone (or a group of someones) has started a TV Tropes page on DRIVE…..

Here’s
a bit about Sheldonsoft and.. what else but Lord of the Rings!?!

Here’s a strip about the functions of a ten year old kid.

You may have noticed that DRIVE didn’t update last week: And I wanted to apologize for not posting a heads-up about it. It wasn’t a server hiccup or anything: I just didn’t want to rush out an update that wasn’t ready.

To me, it’s important that the story be advanced in just the right way, and that each installment has a little something special in the art department. DRIVE is a gift I’m giving myself, you see, and I want to do it right.

So! Know that we may have a skipped week once or twice a year, but I’ll promise to give you a heads up when it happens. Thanks, all!

Here’s
a classic saying about pugs

For those interested, here are links (in order) for all the cartoonists appearing in today’s journal comic:

Panel 1:
Myself, Randall Munroe of xkcd, and Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant

Panel 2:
Kris Straub of F Chords, Scott Kurtz of
PvP and Jeff Keane of
The Family Circus.

Panel 3:
Sandra Boynton of everyone’s golden childhood, and then there’s me again, laughing at Sandy’s jokes.

Panel 4:
Me, the talented Scott C, Rodd Perry of Brevity, and the always kind Richard Thompson of Cul de Sac.

Panel 5:
Me and a creeped-out Bill Amend of Foxtrot.

Panel 6:
Glen Keane of “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty & the Beast,” “Tangled,” and more. Then, Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant, Kris Straub of Starslip, Scott Kurtz of
PvP, Scott C, and me.

A huge thank you to the NCS board and membership for the kind invite out to talk, to Universal Press Syndicate for the hospitality — and for the warm welcome to all us youngin’s over the course of the weekend. It was nothing but lovely.

Just for fun, I thought I’d put the largest Continuum ship up against the largest human ship, “La Invencible,” to give you a sense of scale…

EDITED TO ADD:

More than a few of you e-mailed me asking for a wallpaper of The Spark of Thought, so here you go! (Click for the full-size, 1920x1080px image…and resize as needed!)

As you know, Sheldon is nominated for an Eisner Award…and voting is now open! You’re eligible to vote if you’re a webcomics or print comics creator, graphic-novel librarian, editor or comics educator.

Sheldon’s “Literature” book was nominated in the Best Humor category (category 8). So grab a free PDF copy of the nominated book (12 Mb, PDF format), then go here to vote!

Somethin’ about Balrogs always fascinated me as a kid. They appear in, what, four pages of the Lord of the Rings? But I’ve always been captivated by Tolkien’s description of them. And every year or so, I allow myself a strip on them. Here are some previous entries:

Here, here, or here.